From: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Kaushik Kumar Ram <kaushik@rice.edu>
Subject: Re: blktap2 and CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:56:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279328193.22901.140.camel@agari.van.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C40FEF5.1060901@goop.org>
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:53 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 01:16 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > Yes. That code has been there forever and then got carried over from
> > blktap1 to blktap2, basically as-is. Even to pvops, where it's probaby
> > broken. Empirical proof that nobody is using blktap2 with
> > autotranslation, at least not on recent kernels.
> >
> > I guess it's going to stay there until autotranslation either gets more
> > en vogue again or evaporates altogether.
> >
>
> auto_translate_physmap will come back if people want to use EPT/NPT with
> PV guests.
Ah. I always thought that's going to be rather the replacement. Rather
than being synonymous in the kernel sources. Now that you say it, it
might make sense. :)
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-17 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-14 23:59 blktap2 and CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP Kaushik Kumar Ram
2010-07-15 18:19 ` Shriram Rajagopalan
2010-07-15 19:02 ` Kaushik Kumar Ram
2010-07-15 22:06 ` Shriram Rajagopalan
2010-07-16 20:16 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-07-17 0:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17 0:56 ` Daniel Stodden [this message]
2010-07-19 13:36 ` Ian Campbell
2010-07-19 16:53 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-07-19 17:27 ` Jake Wires
2010-08-06 12:33 ` Jan Beulich
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